Amusement device



A. 1.. BARBER. AMUSEMENT DEVICE. APPLLQATION mm m. 8, 192a,

1,364,793, Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AMUSEMENT- DEVICE.

Application filed January 8, 1920.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLAN J. B-Annnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at \Voonsocket, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Amusement Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to amusement devices.

an important object or the invention is to provide a set of cards each bearing an 1llustration, the cards being so subdivided that they may be reassembled to produce extremely ludicrous results.

A further object of the invention is to produce a card of the above type, the parts of which are so constructed as to aiford no corners having an extremely acute angle which would have a tendency to break OE and so destroy the card.

A further object is to provide a card of the above type bearing the illustration of human or animal bodies so subdivided that the heads and legs of the body may be interchangeably arranged.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent throughout the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings in which are shown cards formed in accordance with my invention,

Figure 1 is a plan view of a card showing in dotted lines the manner of subdividing the same,

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a similarly subdivided card bearing a different illustration.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings the numeral 10 indicates a card as a whole, bearing an illustration preferably embodying a pair of figures 11.

The card is divided into a body portion 12 substantially diamond shaped in form, while not particularly limited to this construction. The card proper is in the form of a rectano-le and the diamond shaped body portion is arranged centrally of the card, the spaces between the points formed by the angles of the diamond and the edge of the card being substantially equal. The remaining portions of the card are divided by cuts 13 extending substantially at right angles to the edge of the card proper and connecting with the points of the diamond 12. It will thus be seen that the card is divided into a body portion 12 above described and four corner Specification of Letters Patent;

Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

Serial No. 350,157.

sections having the form of a rectangle having one corner cut away, the side formed by the cutaway corner being of the same length as the side of the diamond 12.

The body portion 12 bears the bodies 16 of the figures of the illustration, the heads 17 of the figures being carried by the upper corner cards and the legs 18 being carried by the lower corner cards, the width of the body ortions of the illustration at the point of intersection oi the out which forms the edge of the body portion of the card is of the same length on each of the corner cards 14. It will thus be seen that the legs 18 may be interchangeably fitted with the heads 17 in the same card.

As each of the cards of the set is similar in the spacing of the figures it will be readily understood that the corner cards of any card of the set may be interchangeably fitted upon the body portion of any of the other cards of the set and that a portion of the corner cards of one card and a portion of the corner cards of another card may be combined about the body portion of a third card. If desired one corner section from each of four cards may be combined about a body section. It will thus be obvious that my set of cards is capable of practically a limitless number of different arrangements.

What I claim is:

1. In an amusement device, a set of cards similar in size and shape, and each bearing an illustration, each of said cards comprising a central section in the form of an equisided polygon having its angles arranged within and spaced from sides of the completed card, and a plurality of other sections arranged around said central section to produce the complete card, the meeting edges of said last named sections alining with the apices of, and substantially bisecting the exterior angles of said central section, said meeting edges being disposed at substantially right angles to the side of the completed card, each of said sections bearing a portion of the illustration and each of said last named sections interchangeably fitting the body portions of the remaining cards of the set.

2. In an amusement device, a set of similar polygonal cards each bearing an illustration, each comprising a central polygonal section of the same type of polygon as the cards of the set, the angles of said central sections being disposed inwardly of the sides of the completed card and arranged approxi mately centrally with relation thereto, and a plurality of corner sections corresponding in number to, and each bearing one of the angles of the completed cards, the meeting edges of said corner sections being disposed at approximately right angles to the sides of the completed card whereby said corner sections are free from extreme acute angles, each complete card, forming a complete 11lustratlon and each of said body and corner sections bearing a portion of the illustration each of said corner sections interchangeably fitting the body sections of the remaining cards of the set.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ALLAN J. BARBER.

Witnesses GEO. B. SMITH, JAMES H. RIoKARD, Jr. 

